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Pat Bond can still remember her first reclaiming of what she considered to be a beautiful old relic from the wood pile on their small family farm. As an artist, her endeavours have included traditional oil on canvas, acrylic on weathered plywood and ink on tissue. Paper has become her medium of choice, having qualities that appeal to the eye, but also to the senses of touch and sound. Her love of worn and weathered materials resulted in an 1998 exhibition (Out of the Pit) in a Mississauga Salvage yard where her materials were gleaned. The next year, a desire to honour the 20th anniversary of the Mississauga train derailment and evacuation of 1979, became an acrylic on canvas exhibition (Looking Back: the Derailment Show) at the Living Art Centre. In 2005, Bond employed acrylic on canvas for a series featuring the monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). Growing milkweed lead to a fondness for the studying and raising of monarchs. After being accepted into the Colour and Form Society, there were many more opportunities to exhibit through various galleries including the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Etobicoke Civic Centre. 2007 was the 50th anniversary of the founding of St. Luke’s Church, Dixie South. Bond’s proposal was a small (3” x 5”) commemorative booklet with photos, artwork and scripture passages. Two hundred copies, designed and printed by Bond and assembled by volunteers were given to members of the congregation. Copies were accepted into the Rare Books Collection of the Canadian National Library and Archives. A mentorship program with VJane Gordon at the Dundas Valley School of Art began a new era of discovery, and a shift in materials. Improvisational drawing became the means to experimentation on large sheets of translucent paper capturing not only bugs and butterflies, but everything else that could be seen, smelled or heard! Words became important and text called for pages, beginning another part of the journey: a more intentional approach to books! At the Japanese Paper Place, Bond was introduced to traditional bookbinding and began to accumulate sheets of delicate hand-made papers to paint, cut up, and bind into various sizes and shapes of books. She then could insert artwork, poetry, scripture, feathers and other treasures from the bits and pieces in her collections. These efforts lead to a series of banners each with a book or other auxiliary piece. As Covid-19 became an influence, new projects emerged, seen in the carving of wooden nails from twigs, a Covid-19 fashion collection and a Productivity Planner transformation. Finally, the Skeletal Selfie was accepted into the UNframed exhibition at the Propeller Gallery, February, 2023.
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Pat Bond can still remember her first reclaiming of what she considered to be a beautiful old relic from the wood pile on their small family farm. As an artist, her endeavours have included traditional oil on canvas, acrylic on weathered plywood and ink on tissue. Paper has become her medium of choice, having qualities that appeal to the eye, but also to the senses of touch and sound.

Her love of worn and weathered materials resulted in an 1998 exhibition (Out of the Pit) in a Mississauga Salvage yard where her materials were gleaned. The next year, a desire to honour the 20th anniversary of the Mississauga train derailment and evacuation of 1979, became an acrylic on canvas exhibition (Looking Back: the Derailment Show) at the Living Art Centre. In 2005, Bond employed acrylic on canvas for a series featuring the monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus). Growing milkweed lead to a fondness for the studying and raising of monarchs.

After being accepted into the Colour and Form Society, there were many more opportunities to exhibit through various galleries including the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Etobicoke Civic Centre.

2007 was the 50th anniversary of the founding of St. Luke’s Church, Dixie South. Bond’s proposal was a small (3” x 5”) commemorative booklet with photos, artwork and scripture passages. Two hundred copies, designed and printed by Bond and assembled by volunteers were given to members of the congregation. Copies were accepted into the Rare Books Collection of the Canadian National Library and Archives.

A mentorship program with VJane Gordon at the Dundas Valley School of Art began a new era of discovery, and a shift in materials. Improvisational drawing became the means to experimentation on large sheets of translucent paper capturing not only bugs and butterflies, but everything else that could be seen, smelled or heard! Words became important and text called for pages, beginning another part of the journey: a more intentional approach to books!

At the Japanese Paper Place, Bond was introduced to traditional bookbinding and began to accumulate sheets of delicate hand-made papers to paint, cut up, and bind into various sizes and shapes of books. She then could insert artwork, poetry, scripture, feathers and other treasures from the bits and pieces in her collections. These efforts lead to a series of banners each with a book or other auxiliary piece.

As Covid-19 became an influence, new projects emerged, seen in the carving of wooden nails from twigs, a Covid-19 fashion collection and a Productivity Planner transformation. Finally, the Skeletal Selfie was accepted into the UNframed exhibition at the Propeller Gallery, February, 2023.
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